Tire-heater.



No. 70!,200. Patented May 27, I902.

H. J. HENGEVELD &. A. E. ADAMS.

TIRE HEATER,

. (Application filed A r. 20, 1901.

(No Wloclal.)

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HENRY J. HENGEVELD AND ALBERT E. ADAMS, OF HIGH SPRINGS, FLORIDA.

TIRE-HEATER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 701,200, dated May 27, 1902.

Application filed April 25, 1901. Serial No. 57,449. (No model.)

To ztZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, HENRY J. I-IENGEVELD and ALBERT E. ADAMS, of High Springs, in the county of Alachua and State of Florida, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Tire-Heaters, of which the following is a specification.

This invention is an improvement in machines for heating tires of locomotives and the like to enable the removal of such tires when worn without requiring the removal of the Wheel, and has for an object to provide an improved construction of burner-ring for encircling the tire whereby to secure a more rapid heating thereof; and the invention consists in certain novel constructions and combinations of parts, as will be hereinafter described and claimed.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a side view of tire-heating apparatus embodying our invention. Fig. 2 is a detail sectional view of the burner.

The ring B is designed to encircle the tire and is supported on a base K, having uprights K provided with clasps K for holding the ring so the latter can be supported in an upright position, as shown. The ring is composed of a series of short tube-sections B, threaded at their ends in the 'T connections B, which are provided centrally with the in: wardly-projecting nozzles forming the burners b. The burners I) each have a perforated plateZ in rear of its outlet operating to give a solid blue blaze. The inwardly projecting nozzles are important, as by them the heatingblaze is discharged directly against the tire and is permitted to spread out along the surface thereof, eifectin g a thorough heating thereof, as desired. Further, by making the rings in sections and connecting thesections by the nozzle connections if any of the latter or the sections become iujuredor worn it can be readily replaced, and sections can be added or removed to conveniently increase or decrease the size of the ring to adapt it to operate on different sizes of wheels. The gas or hydrocarbon fuel may be supplied to the ring through the tube J from any'desired source.

Having thus described our invention, what We claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, isv 1. In a tire-heater, a ring composed of tube sections, T connections between said sections and threaded thereto, inwardly projecting nozzles or burners on said connections, and thefstandhaving clasps holding said ring whereby it may be supported in an upright position substantially as set forth.

2. A tire-heating ring composed of a series of tubular sections, a series of nozzles, and means for connecting the tubular sections and nozzles whereby sections and nozzles may be added or removed to vary the size of the ring substantially as set forth.

HENRY J. HENGEVELD. ALBERT E. ADAMS.

Witnesses:

G. P. WEBB, J C. NEWBERRY. 

